Walter von Sanden-Guja

Walter von Sanden-Guja

Walter von Sanden-Guja (born June 18, 1888 in Marienwalde , Darkehmen district , East Prussia ; † February 7, 1972 in Hüde , Diepholz district, Lower Saxony) was a German writer , naturalist , poet .

Life

In 1911 Walter von Sanden-Guja took over the parental property in Launingken and Klein Guja (no longer existent). In 1914 he married Edith von Schlueter and was called up as an officer for military service in the same year at the beginning of the First World War . After the end of the war, in 1918, he began his first natural history research on Lake Nordenburg and the Rawda River . His first book Guja - See der Vögel was published in 1933 in Königsberg . In January 1945, Walter von Sanden-Guja and his wife Edith fled from East Prussia to Carinthia via the approaching war operations over the Fresh Lagoon . From 1946 he lived in Graefenholz (Lower Franconia). Von Sanden-Guja found his “second home” in Hüde am Dümmer . For the publication of his research results he received the culture award of the Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen for literature in 1958 . In 1965 Walter von Sanden-Guja was awarded the Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit for his commitment to preserving the stupid.

Services

Walter von Sanden-Guja researched the fauna and flora of East Prussia and documented these findings in numerous photographs and books. In the years of National Socialism , his works were censored because he could not be integrated into the party structure.

He campaigned strongly for the preservation of the then relatively unpolluted Dümmer (Lower Saxony), a flat lake surrounded by a ring dike . The emergence of intensive agricultural production led to the loss of oxygen in the water through over-fertilization , which made the lake biologically impoverished. The natural scientist did not experience the reduction of harmful effects such as the construction of a sewage ring main.

Works

• Guja - lake of birds , Königsberg / Pr. 1933
• On quiet paths , Königsberg / Pr. 1935
• In the change of the seasons , Königsberg / Pr. 1937, 2nd edition Hanover 1966
• From nature , stories, Königsberg / Pr. 1937,
• The good land , Königsberg / Pr. 1938, further editions in Marburg and Munich
• Ingo - The story of my otter , Tübingen 1939, Stuttgart 1953, Munich 1972
• The lake of the seven islands , Königsberg / Pr. 1942, Marburg 1947
• Little silent world , Königsberg 1942
• Everything about a mouse , Gräfe und Unzer Verlag, Königsberg 1942
• The parables and little stories , Königsberg 1943
• The kingfisher , Marburg 1948
• The cranes from the lake , Hamburg 1948
• Guja, Life at the Lake of the Birds , Hamburg 1949
• Migratory birds , Kitzingen / M. 1950
• At the lake of the Little Bittern , Kitzingen / M. 1950
• The great Binsensee , Stuttgart 1953, 2nd exp . Edition 1960
• Where the world seemed most beautiful to me , Hanover 1957
• Life everywhere , Hanover 1959
• My pond and the frog , Hanover 1963
• The Flying Gem , Hanover 1963 (New edition of 'Der Eisvogel' 1948)
• Colorful flowers everywhere , Hanover 1963
• Starlings under our roof , Hanover 1964
• The lake under the Turiawald , Hanover 1965
• Poems , Hanover 1965
• Destiny of East Prussia , Hanover 1968
• The Barn Swallow , Hanover 1971
• Edith von Sanden-Guja, sculptures , no place or year
• Colorful flowers everywhere , Hanover 1963 together with Edith von Sanden

estate

The artistic estate is in the archive of the Angerburg district community in Rotenburg (Wümme) . Part of the estate of Sanden-Guja and his wife Edith was in a permanent exhibition in the Dümmermuseum in Lembruch , which, however, was no longer taken over after the renovation and the reopening of the museum in 2003.

Honors

On November 4, 2011, the district council of the Diepholz district decided on the naming of the Lemförde secondary school . From then on, it was named Von Sanden Oberschule Lemförde in memory of Walter von Sanden-Guja and his wife Edith .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Naming of the Von Sanden High School Lemförde (PDF; 227 kB)

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter von Sanden-Guja in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biographical sketch of Walter and Edith von Sanden-Guja on Ostpreußen.net, accessed on April 7, 2013